Polytrauma in the elderly: Predictors of the cause and time of death

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Clement, Nicholas D ^a   Tennant, Carole ^b   Muwanga, Cyrus ^b  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SUNDERLAND ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955299464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-18-26     Document Type: Article

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